Sightline: One Intelligence Engine, Endless Lenses on Your Inventory
How many screens, reports, and spreadsheets does it take your planners to answer one question about inventory? For most teams, the data behind a single buying decision is scattered across pages, systems, and exports that are stale the moment they’re pulled. This demo introduces Sightline, the new intelligence engine inside ActivePlanning that acts as a crystal ball for how inventory will move through your network in the coming days, weeks, and months. Through user-configurable workspaces called lenses, planners pull live data into purpose-built views for reviewing suggested orders, forecasts, and overall inventory, aggregating and drilling down across item, location, and time hierarchies, comparing internal and external data side by side, and tracing the reasoning behind every AI-driven recommendation. Watch as the team builds a suggested order review from summary chart to order lines, alternate sources, and vendor reliability without ever leaving the page, turning hours of off-system investigation into in-application answers within seconds.
Key Takeaways
- One engine, endless lenses. Sightline replaces screen-hopping and stale reports with user-configurable workspaces built around your workflows. Each lens combines multiple live data sets, charts, tables, and pivots - into a single view with interconnected widgets and filters that planners can rearrange, resize, and save.
- Aggregate, drill down, and compare in real time. Roll data up or down across item, location, and time hierarchies to spot discrepancies fast, and bring internal and external data, like marketing or finance forecasts versus the system forecast, into the same view to see exactly where they differ.
- From hours of investigation to answers in seconds. Sightline reveals the reasoning behind every AI-driven forecast, recommendation, and inventory decision in Active Planning, from alternate sourcing options to vendor delivery reliability, deepening planner trust by delivering in-application answers instead of off-system detective work.
Speaker
Date: August 12, 2026
Time: 11:00 AM – 11:30 AM EST